There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people who are deeply touched that our common prayer takes time to remember some of the terrible tragedies that have happened around the world.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

I found that the death penalty  -  and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person  -  but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.